Here’s a message from the U.S. government to satellite owners, operators and builders:
If you think the dread ITAR dragon — which for 15 years allegedly laid waste to exports of U.S. satellite hardware and ser...

The head of one of the companies that would become Airbus once gave journalists a translation lesson.
“Whenever you hear us say a program is ‘strategic,’ what we mean is we don’t earn a dime on it,” he said. “...

For most people outside the space industry, and maybe even some inside it, “senior review” sounds like some kind of final exam before graduation. For those involved in NASA science missions, the stakes are even...

For decades, NOAA has had a robust, mutually beneficial relationship with our private sector aerospace industry partners. Commercial space services are rapidly changing and new approaches are emerging for the d...

To illustrate the challenges of sending robotic missions to Mars,Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration and operations, showed this chart of the history of Mars missions during...